This antique book contains a comprehensive treatise on the various ways of generating power to drive farm machinery, including information on using horses, bulls, dogs, and other methods of powering equipment. Complete with helpful tips, simple descriptions, easy-to-follow instructions, and detailed illustrations, this text constitutes a thorough guide to alternative and cost-effective methods of powering machinery. It will make for a wonderful addition to collections of antiquarian agricultural literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Generating Mechanical Power to Drive Farm Machinery', 'Dog Churn', 'Bull Treadmill', 'Windmills', 'One-Mule Pump', 'Horsepower', 'Water-Power', 'Steam Boiler and Engine', 'Small Gasoline Engines', 'Kerosene Portable Engines', 'Portable Farm Engine and Truck', 'Hydraulic Ram', etcetera. We are proud to republish this antique volume, now complete with a new introduction on agricultural tools and machinery.